Direct Connection 340 block 1971
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Professor Fate
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Milodon Superstock pan or Hamburger drag pan, very similar pieces.
Acknowledged to be some of the best pans of their day, and some would argue they still are.
Your car's PO had a good eye for parts, it will be interesting to see what the internals are.
In the 70's after the conclusion of Mopar participation in TA
series, Mopar Perf. found 6 original TA casting in a Ohio Warehouse
and source them to us. They actually flew them out by Aircraft
and delivered them to us. It looked like a CIA operation!
No numbers on identifiers on the blocks and four Bolt Mains.
I found them superior to our X and R Blocks in sonic testing
and Deck thickness.
We still all these years later still run 5 of these blocks
in our Stock and SS race cars and they ARE a lot
of the reason for our continuing success. These are not the
TA blocks that Mopar Perf sold
The sixth block has some concerns for what we do and
it is in Greg Gays Superstock 318 Mirada.
series, Mopar Perf. found 6 original TA casting in a Ohio Warehouse
and source them to us. They actually flew them out by Aircraft
and delivered them to us. It looked like a CIA operation!
No numbers on identifiers on the blocks and four Bolt Mains.
I found them superior to our X and R Blocks in sonic testing
and Deck thickness.
We still all these years later still run 5 of these blocks
in our Stock and SS race cars and they ARE a lot
of the reason for our continuing success. These are not the
TA blocks that Mopar Perf sold
The sixth block has some concerns for what we do and
it is in Greg Gays Superstock 318 Mirada.
These are the oil pans that make Chevy guys heads just explode. I love it. They just completely lock up and blow a gasket when they see it. lol
I’m pretty sure you have to call Hedman Hustler headers.
Hedman headers and Hedman Hustler headers are not the same.
Yes that's who I called first was in California that's just hedman and then they told me to call the Hustler and they're in Georgia and I talked to him they said no because they're getting ready to close that and move up to California I wish they did I just can't believe there's none left out here I know people don't like them because you butcher your car mine's already done so I don't mind putting them on there and it's not that hard to fix to put back
Yes you are correct that oil pan is crazy looking to me it's big I didn't know if somebody made it because I've never really seen one like that I don't know how many are out there . Mostly what I see are moroso deep ones
Well that’s bad news for dang sure.
Keep that pan. As I always say it’s the best pan for a stock chassis you can get.
Dartswinger70
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I aint never seen an oil pan like that before...
Professor Fate
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Yeah I was googling and didn't see a pan similar to Spikes.
His has a more oval hole.
His has a more oval hole.
Dartswinger70
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is it an 8 quart capacity?
At least!
Professor Fate
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If my old feeble memory serves me right, I believe it was "advertised" as a nine quart pan- although I doubt anybody ever ran that. As I recall, most guys ran around six, maybe seven and used the extra space to keep the oil level farther from the crank to further aid windage control. Baffling/oil control was pretty dang good in those pans and you didn't have to worry about starvation even at lower levels.
It was known as the Landy pan because I believe Dick Landy was the first to do it on a Hemi car.
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